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The Kahikatea tree grows to a height of 55 metres with a trunk exceeding 1 metre in diametre, and is buttressed at the base. It is dominant lowland forest and wetlands throughout the North and South Islands. They leaves are spiraily arranged on young plants, they are all-shaped 3 to 8 mm long, and twisted at the base to lie spread to the sides of his shoot in a flat plane on mature trees, they are a scale-like, 1 to 3 mm long, and placed all around the shoot. The cones are highly modified, with the cones scale swelling at maturity into an orange then red, fleshy aril with a single apical seed 3 to 5 mm in diametre. The seeds are dispersed by birds, which eat the fleshy scale and pass the seeds in their droppings.